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As part of The Healthy Kids Community Challenge, the Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health developed a series of short instructional videos on various traditional activities. The Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health is an award-winning charity that is a leader in community-based, holistic health care, bridging Aboriginal cultural practices with Western medicine to combat poverty and illness in Canada's First Peoples. Traditionally Inuit games were created to keep the body strong and agile....

Teaching Games for Understanding - Activity Support Package is a terrific resource from OPHEA. This resource provides various small-sided games that will help kids understand common concepts in many traditional sports. The intent is to teach concepts rather than specific sports.

Games are separated into four categories: Target, Net/Wall, Striking, and Invasion/Territorial. Educators, coaches, and program coordinators can all use this valuable resource to support the physical literacy...

As part of the Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) approach, games such as indoor curling can be used to illustrate tactics and strategies specific to Target Games. What can players do to score? What needs to be considered when trying to prevent scoring? Consider these questions and others found in the Problem-Diagnosis Framework. When teaching with lead up games like the ones found within this video, we can support skill development through a small-sided games approach....

Exploring Games Strategies and Tactics in Physical Education contains information shared from a workshop developed by Shelley Barthel and Sebastian Harenberg. Download the document and find explanations of games students can play to develop tactical awareness and strategies. All activities listed contain curricular connections as well as variations and inclusion options.